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This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to the group currently overseeing the dismantling of chemical weapons in Syria. We'll get reaction from Damascus and learn more about the Human Rights Watch report that details atrocities carried out by rebel groups in Syria. Plus, some lost Dr. Who episodes that turned up in, of all places, Nigeria.

Friday on The World: This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to the group currently overseeing the dismantling of chemical weapons in Syria. We'll get reaction from Damascus and learn more about the Human Rights Watch report that details atrocities carried out by rebel groups in Syria. Plus, some lost Dr. Who episodes that turned up in, of all places, Nigeria.

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It's a good day for the UN, with its chemical weapons inspectors getting honored with a Nobel Peace Prize. The UN has been recognized in other ways over the years. A LEGO model of UN Headquarters was recently unveiled. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon even snapped in the final piece on a large scale version. We got the small kit here in the office --- all 597 pieces. And we set out to build it.

You wouldn't wish anyone to have a childhood that started in war-torn Somalia. But in the real-life story of pirates who commandeered a US cargo ship and were pursued by US Navy SEALs, Barkhad Abdi says his few early years in Somalia helped him in his co-starring role.

Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Sheri Fink's new book, "Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital" looks at what happened in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But Fink says she's seen the same themes, the same struggles, on her reporting all over the world.

Most of the reports of atrocities in the Syrian civil unrest have been blamed on the Syrian government forces. Now,Human Rights Watch has documented some of the worst incidents of the war - executions, indiscriminate killing and kidnappings - and says the rebel forces are the culprits.

The chemical weapons inspectors now working in Syria say the government of Bashar al-Assad is cooperating. But that’s cold comfort to residents in the Damascus neighborhood of Zamalka, where there are endless blocks of fallen concrete and twisted metal, buildings that are sliced in half and remnants of lives that used to be.

Syria's President Assad has called sarin, a "kitchen gas." He claims that Syrian rebel groups were responsible for the sarin gas attack in his country, and that it's not that tough to make. He's wrong.